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Best Practices Guide:

RFID Implementation, Testing & Deployment
Lessons for Success from Real-World Implementations
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Executive Summary

      RFID Systems have significantly improved over the past
      several years, now achieving read rates close to 100%
      and fulfilling the vision of RFID experts. To implement a
      system that works this well, many factors must be taken
      into consideration and the correct choices made.

      This paper reviews some of the design factors involved in an RFID
      system implementation, such as selecting active vs. passive tags,
      choosing RFID tags, attaching RFID tags to assets, and performing
      application testing. For each design factor, pros and cons of the
      available options are discussed, as well as common pitfalls – and
      how to avoid them. To illustrate the various options and their uses,
      the paper includes a number of real-world examples drawn from
      Omni-ID’s extensive experience in implementing RFID systems. For
      anyone planning an RFID deployment, these invaluable lessons
      will guide you to success.

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Contents

Introduction: Achieving 100% Read Rate                               4
Implementing RFID Systems                                            4
Active vs. Passive Tags                                              5
  Real World Lessons: Active Tags in a Data Center                   6
Circular vs. Linear Antennas                                         6
  Real World Lessons: Retail Store                                   7
  Real World Lessons: Work-In-Process                                7
  Antenna / Reader Compatibility                                     7
Selecting RFIDTags                                                   8
  Read Range                                                         8
  Tag Size                                                           8
  Interference                                                       8
  Real World Lessons: Data Center                                    8
Attaching RFID Tags to Assets                                        9
  Real World Lessons: Networking Equipment Company                   9
  Real World Lessons: Financial Institution                          10
Tag Commissioning                                                    10
  Vendor Commissioning                                               10
  In-House Commissioning                                             11
Application Testing                                                  11
  Real World Lessons: Supermarket Chain                              11
  Real World Lessons: Manufacturing Warehouse                        12
New Applications for RFID                                            12
  Real World Lessons: Survey Marker Company                          13
Summary                                                              13
  RFID Deployment Checklist                                          14
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Introduction: Achieving 100% Read Rate

      It was early 2009, and John Richards was testing the RFID
      inventory system he’d been working on for the past several
      years. John Richards manages the data centers for one of the
      country’s largest equipment providers. The data center where
      the RFID system was being tested was around 2000 square
      feet and contained over 7000 individual pieces of equipment.
      Clearly identifying and tracking each asset in the center was a
      tremendous challenge. John had a vision for how RFID could
      enable accurate asset tracking for the data center, but over
      several years he had tested numerous RFID equipment types
      and setups without achieving 100% read performance.

Since the fall of 2008, John had been working with Andre Cote,         Implementing RFID Systems
the CTO of Omni-ID. John was testing several changes, including
the use of Omni-ID’s Prox RFID tag, with the hopes of improving        RFID systems have been available for years, but many who have
system performance. His goal was to tag all assets in his data         tried an RFID implementation have found it more difficult than
center and achieve read rates of 99% to 100%, so that he could         expected. As with most complex undertakings, up front education
take inventory accurately and quickly. If he could prove the           and planning increases the chance of success.
success of this system, he planned to implement the process
globally. Long term, he even hoped to use RFID to manage the           This White Paper, brought to you by Omni-ID, manufacturer of
product life cycle.                                                    balanced on-, off- and near-metal passive UHF RFID tags, is a
                                                                       guide to some of the factors to consider in planning an RFID
The system operated with a roll cart containing an RFID reader         implementation. An RFID implementation should always be done
and antenna, which would be guided down the three-foot-wide            with the assistance of an experienced system integrator, preferably
aisles, reading inventory tags on both sides. The data center’s        one with experience implementing in environments similar to your
assets included items made of metal, plastic, or a combination         own. While this guide doesn’t replace the assistance of a systems
of the two, which had to be identified at a distance of about two      integrator, it does present issues you’re likely encounter. It also
feet. In the earliest tests, read rates were only 85%.Since then,      shares real world success stories and pitfalls so that you can
each piece of equipment in the system had been optimized.              benefit from lessons learned and confidently plan for a successful
In addition to the new RFID tags, new readers and antennas             RFID implementation.
designed for the process had been installed, and new data
capture software was written.

In the final round of testing, 99% to 100% read rates were achieved,
thanks to the Omni-ID ProxTM tag and the new modifications to the
reader systems. The team was elated with their success. During
the debrief John turned to Andre. “That’s the first time,” he said
with satisfaction, “that I have ever been able to do this.”

                                                                        The Water Tests

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Active vs. Passive Tags

One of the first decisions to be made in designing an RFID                         There are also features of passive tags that are superior to active
system is whether to use active or passive RFID tags. Both                         tags. The most significant is cost; the initial per-tag cost is much
active and passive tags have developed significantly over the                      lower for passive tags. Passive tags also have a much longer
past several years, and are capable of functioning in ways that                    lifespan, lasting indefinitely, while active tag batteries typically must
didn’t work even a few years ago. Understanding how these                          be replaced within two-to-three years, adding both infrastructure
technologies apply in the real world can help determine which                      and labor costs. The lower overall cost – both in installation and
type of tag is best for your application.                                          maintenance – is responsible for the popularity of passive tags
                                                                                   today. Another important differentiation between passive and
Because active tags have a battery in them, they have certain
                                                                                   active tags is tag size.
advantages over passive tags. Their signal is stronger, and they
emit a signal without activation by an RFID                                        Passive tags are generally smaller than active tags, and will
                                                                                   therefore physically fit on a smaller surface area. As with active
reader, so they can constantly “chirp” their identity. The
                                                                                   tags, many new capabilities have been developed for passive tags
additional power can overcome interference from surrounding
                                                                                   in recent years. Most notably, passive tags are now able to work
electromagnetic fields, which means that for use on metals, active
                                                                                   on metals and liquids, and the memory storage capacity has been
tags were the only option until a few years ago, when on-metal
                                                                                   increased substantially to store pedigree data.
passive tags were introduced. In recent years, active tags have
been developed with improved functionality, enabling the tag to                    Because of the lower cost of a passive tag infrastructure, RFID
capture and broadcast pedigree data -- time, temperature, or GPS                   system designers only use an active tag system when the “always-
location -- in addition to a simple identity signal.                               on” capabilities justify the additional cost.

                                                             Active                                     Passive
          Signal strength                                    Stronger                                   Weaker

          Signal availability                                Always on                                  Responds when read

          Size                                               Larger                                     Smaller

          Initial cost                                       Higher                                     Lower

          Maintenance                                        Replace every 2–3 years                    Indefinite lifetime

          Environment                                        Available for all environments             Available for all environments

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Real World Lessons: Active Tags in a Data Center

It can be difficult to quantify the additional benefits and costs of an active RFID
implementation. As an example, let’s look at an active-tag RFID implementation in a data         Best Practice #1
center. It’s the dream of many data center managers to be able to take inventory at the push
                                                                                                 For many companies,
of a button, without leaving their chair – and that’s the appeal of an active-tag RFID system.   implementing a passive RFID
However, the managers at this data center found that the quantity and close proximity of the     system gives them sufficient
tagged assets created an environment where many tags, all “chirping” at once, interfered         benefits of an automated
with each other’s signals. With so many tags emitting similar frequencies in close proximity,    inventory control system with less
the opportunity for a tag to override another tag’s signal was very high.                        cost than an active RFID system
                                                                                                 would require.
The data center manager addressed the issue by attenuating the tag signal frequency to
only emit a signal once per minute. Even at this lower signal frequency, tags were “talking
over” other tags; when the button was pushed and the inventory measured, some assets
were not captured due to interference.

Additional measures can be taken to address this issue. Assets can be compartmentalized
with dividers to create smaller groups of signals, with different readers installed for each
group. However these measures also add infrastructure cost, which ultimately reduces the
ROI of the project.

Circular vs. Linear Antennas

Another key system design decision is the type of antenna you will use with your RFID
reader. Although there are many antenna types, they can be grouped into two main
categories, circular and linear, referring to the polarization of the signal emitted.

The two antenna types have different advantages. A circular antenna reads from a much
wider angle and a shorter distance than a linear antenna, and it can read tags in different
orientations. A linear antenna can have better read performance and accuracy when the tag
orientation is controllable. When designing your RFID system, it is important to identify the
following design criteria:

  • How far will your reader be from the tags it is reading?

  • How well can you control the orientation and position of the tags?

  • How wide (or tall) is area over which you need to have read covered?

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Real World Lessons: Retail Store

Let’s illustrate these decisions with a couple of real-world examples. In the first, an RFID
system was implemented in a retail store to enclose and maintain security in the store’s           Best Practice #2
electronics department. The readers and antenna were suspended from the ceiling, and
                                                                                                   Take the time to draw the
needed to read tags within the entire area of the department, ceiling to floor. In this case,      illumination window required
antennas with a wide-angle read range were used to create a large zone of read coverage.           to achieve your read rates
Several antennas were required, and careful measurements were made to ensure that the              and make sure you purchase
antenna read distance would reach the floor, and that each cone of read coverage would             hardware that can physically
overlap sufficiently to create full coverage for the department. Once                              accomplish the goal.

this full read coverage was established, any tags that moved out of the department would
raise an alarm. By using circular antennas with the appropriate range, this system was
successfully able to secure the electronics department.

Real World Lessons: Work-In-Process
In another, quite different example, a consumer products manufacturer wanted to implement
RFID tagging on a high-speed Work-In-Process conveyor line. The manufacturer was adding
                                                                                                   Best Practice #3
RFID to its product as a result of a customer mandate; it was a high priority to enable RFID
                                                                                                   There is no one “best” type of
without changing the existing production process. In addition, the manufacturer wanted to
                                                                                                   equipment; rather, choose the
tag the pallets without incurring the additional cost of bringing the production line to a stop.
                                                                                                   equipment type that best fits your
Products moved along the line at 600 ft/minute through a portal. Each pallet was tagged,           purpose.
programmed and verified as they moved through the portal. The RFID system was first
implemented using circular antennas at the portal, and resulted in an 80% success rate for
a single-read tag and verify operation. They then switched to a linear antenna, which had a
stronger and more accurate signal, and found they could achieve read rates of 100% with
the new antenna. The implementation using linear antennas was successful because the
tags had consistent positioning on the pallet, and the pallets moved through the portal at the
same orientation each time.

Antenna / Reader Compatibility
EPCglobal standard ISO 18006 was written to ensure that RFID chips and readers would be
compatible, but that standard does not address antennas. Consequently, you can’t always
rely on every reader working with a variety of antennas. Before buying a reader, you should
ask what antennas it is compatible with, and if the choice is limited, be sure to investigate
further so that you don’t invest in a reader that won’t accommodate your system design.

        Before buying a reader, you should ask what antennas it
        is compatible with, and if the choice is limited, be sure
        to investigate further so that you don’t invest in a reader
        that won’t accommodate your system design.

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Selected RFID Tags

Read Range
The primary consideration when selecting RFID tags is finding the optimal balance between
size and read range. The right read range is based on the physical distance between your
assets and the RFID reader. For example, a trucking operation will need to easily identify
individual trucks from a distance, necessitating RFID tags with a long read range. In a retail
outlet, or any environment where many assets are close together, a long read range can
cause signal interference, making it difficult to take inventory on just one aisle or section.
When assets are in close proximity, a shorter read range works best.

Tag Size
As a general rule of thumb, the larger the tag, the longer its read range. For many
applications, tag size is not an issue, because there’s plenty of room on the asset to locate
a tag. However, on smaller high-value assets such as electronic equipment, size can be
a critical factor. The faceplate of many electronic devices is already competing for space
between the various controls, and airflow ducts. Placing a tag over an airflow intake can
cause the equipment to overheat and fail. Over the past several years, the RFID industry has
developed new RFID tags with smaller footprints, such as the Omni-ID ProxTM.

Interference

After read range and size, the most important consideration in planning your implementation
is the electromagnetic environment in which you’ll be installing your RFID system. All
materials have dielectric properties, which always impacts the operating frequency. A
standard dipole RFID tag takes on the dielectric properties of the material it’s on, which is
why those tags have historically not worked when used on materials like metal or liquid.
Today, tags are available that are optimized to work either on- or off- or near-metal. In
planning your implementation, it’s important to choose a tag type that will work effectively on
all of your assets.

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Real World Lessons: Data Center

A data center decided to do an RFID implementation using an incremental approach, starting
with tagging non-metal assets that presented the maximum process improvement for the
                                                                                                 Best Practice #4
lowest cost. Using inexpensive standard dipole tags, the data center manager tagged just
                                                                                                 Choosing one tag that works on
those assets that were plastic, covering 30%-50% of the assets in the data center. After
                                                                                                 all of your assets can prevent
implementing and testing the system, he found that it worked well and significantly improved
                                                                                                 confusion and decrease the cost
their inventory accuracy.                                                                        of the deployment.
He then expanded the RFID implementation to include tagging metal assets which required
him to select a second RFID tag that was optimized to work on metal. As new equipment was
deployed, an employee with no RFID expertise was responsible for deciding which tag to
place on each new asset. It turned out to be much more difficult than expected to determine
whether an item was metal or plastic. Many plastics today are designed to imitate metal, with
a rigid feel and a black, metallic appearance. As different brands of servers, blade servers,
and routers were deployed, many of them were incorrectly tagged.

The RFID system of choice was not working as planned, with many assets missed during
inventory capture. The company tried to solve the problem by identifying and replacing the
non-working tags. However, the cost of this effort quickly outweighed the cost savings of
using the less expensive standard tags for the non-metal items.

The problem was finally solved when the data center moved to a single tag with a reliable
read range on- and off-metal. Using one RFID tag that worked reliably on all assets enabled
the data center to achieve accurate inventory readings for 100% of their assets, something
they had previously been unable to do.

           The problem was finally solved when the data center
           moved to a single tag with a reliable read range on- and
           off-metal. Using one RFID tag that worked reliably on
           all assets enabled the data center to achieve accurate
           inventory readings for 100% of their assets, something
           they had previously been unable to do.

Attaching RFID Tags to Assets

Designing an RFID system and selecting the proper equipment is the first step in any
RFID implementation. Other decisions may be less obvious but are equally important to a
successful implementation, such as how and where to attach the RFID tag to an asset. A
secure attachment is required to accurately track and identify assets.

Real World Lessons: Networking Equipment Company

A major networking equipment company needed to tag a very small electronics board -- so
small that even the smallest RFID tags were too big. The front of the board was all metal, and
was grilled for air flow. Working with engineers at Omni-ID, the team decided to try using a
polycarbonate tether to hang the tag through the grilling. After some testing, the Omni-ID
team was able to provide the RFID tag with the tether attached. Additional testing proved that
the tag could be read successfully from multiple directions, so hanging the tag backwards or
sideways would not cause a problem. The new tether allowed the team to tag this asset as part
of their RFID inventory tracking and management system, despite its size limitations. Omni-ID
now offers the Tether as a standard product option for the Omni-ID ProxTM tag.

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Real World Lessons: Financial Institution

In another example of the importance of correctly attaching tags to assets, the data center
at a major financial institution deployed 10,000 RFID tags throughout the center, using a
                                                                                                       Best Practice #5
hired temporary labor force. Shortly thereafter, they found that many tags were not securely
                                                                                                       Creating a simple but clear
attached, and a few had even fallen off the equipment and were found on the floor. They
                                                                                                       procedure for tag placement can
initially suspected that the tag adhesive was to blame, but after further investigation they
                                                                                                       prevent problems later on.
learned that the workers who had applied the tags were using poor processes. Given no
guidance on tag placement, they had sometimes applied the tags to a curved surface or
over ventilation holes. They had not checked that the surface was clean, and had applied
no pressure when placing the tags. In some cases, they had even changed their minds after
placing a tag, pulled it off, and replaced it in a different location. It was no surprise that these
tags were not securely attached. For future deployments, the data center implemented
simple guidelines for the deployment workforce. They showed the correct tag location for
each class of asset, and required each tag to be placed on a clean, flat surface, applying
pressure for five seconds when placing each tag.

Tag Commissioning

      As with tag attachment, it is important to think through how to
      commission RFID tags – the process of programming each tag
      with a unique identification number. Commissioning tags after
      they are applied to the asset and stored in the inventory location
      is not recommended – it is too easy to mistakenly commission
      more than one asset when working in a crowded inventory
      environment. Tag commissioning should be done away from the
      final inventory location, either by the tag vendor or in-house.

Vendor Commissioning

When programming sequential numbers into RFID tags, consider having the RFID tag vendor
ship the tags pre-programmed with the identification numbers. The ease of receiving tags
already commissioned with the numbers you provided makes your deployment faster and
eliminates the need for you to set up an in-house commissioning line. This method works
well if you are tagging a row of inventory locations or giving assets numbers for the first time,
because you will be following a sequential block of numbers.

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In-House Commissioning

If, on the other hand, you have an asset base that already has identification numbers, and
they are out of sequence, it may be easier to set up an in-house commissioning line. For
example, a row of assets in a data center contains many items that have been bar-coded and
subsequently moved around, resulting in a non-sequential group of identification numbers on
any aisle. The easiest way to commission tags for these assets is to collect the data for the
whole aisle and then program tags for that aisle in a separate commissioning area.

A commissioning line can be set up with either an RFID reader, or with an RFID printer.
Standard dipole tags can be commissioned through an RFID printer, but until recently, tags
that worked on metal could not be commissioned that way because they are attached to
a thick substrate. With the recent announcement of Omni-ID’s On Demand deployment
solution, you can now commission Omni-ID ProxTM tags by printing on the chip element with
an RFID printer, and then attach the chip to the substrate like a label. As with many other
recent technological advances, this new offering makes it possible to implement RFID as
easily in mixed-material environments as it has been previously in non-metal environments.

Application Testing

      Once the RFID system is designed, ensure success by testing
      the system in the actual environment where it will be deployed.
      Because of the many sources of dielectric interference in the real
      world, the performance of an RFID system after implementation
      can vary significantly from lab test results. Many companies
      do initial testing in an anechoic chamber, which cancels
      out dielectric signals from other sources. Similarly, product
      specifications are typically listed at the most optimal performance
      levels, without interference. Testing how your system elements
      work together, within your work environment, can uncover
      potential issues that can be solved before full deployment.

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Real World Lessons: Supermarket Chain

A major supermarket chain was deploying an RFID inventory system in their distribution
centers. In these large warehouses, pallets were tagged, and each bin location in the
warehouse racks was also tagged with a location identifier. Forklifts were equipped
with RFID readers, so that as each pallet was put away, the pallet ID and the bin ID
were captured. When an order came in for a pallet of a specific product, the automated
inventory tracking significantly reduced the time required to locate and pick the pallet for
shipping to the retail outlet.

A glitch in deployment occurred when 10,000 tags were placed on warehouse racks
without prior applications testing. The racks were made of steel I-beams, and the RFID
tags were placed in the recess of the steel beam. After all the tags were placed, it was
discovered that the I-beam created a wave guide effect. While it looked like a regular
piece of steel, the shape of the I-beam manipulated the dielectric field around it, creating
a dead spot for radio frequency and effectively blocking the reader from accessing and
reading the tags.
                                                                                               Best Practice #6
In this case, Omni-ID, the tag vendor, developed a solution for the customer which             Always do applications testing in
captured enough energy to read the tags. However, the entire issue could have been             the actual environment where the
avoided with applications testing, which would have revealed the issue in time to place the    system will be implemented, to
tags in a different location on the I-beams.                                                   identify and solve issues before a
                                                                                               large-scale deployment.

Real World Lessons: Manufacturing Warehouse

A manufacturing warehouse set up an RFID inventory system that captured pallet IDs as
they moved through two dock door portals on either side of the warehouse. The system was       Best Practice #7
designed using a tag with eight feet of read range, and tested successfully in an anechoic
                                                                                               RFID systems are affected by
chamber. Once deployed, the portal on one side of the warehouse worked perfectly,              electromagnetic forces around
however on the other side, read performance was only successful at a distance of one or        them, and don’t always work the
two feet. The RFID tags were not the problem, as the same pallet was easily read by the        same way in production as they
working portal. Engineers began debugging the system, testing each piece of equipment.         do in the test lab.

Eventually they discovered that the warehouse had been equipped at one time with a
wireless infrastructure that operated at 915 mHz, the mid-band of the RF frequency range
(wireless systems today typically operate at microwave frequencies). Although no longer
used, the access point for the old system was still operating, and was located right above
the dock door where the RFID portal had been installed. In this case, it was easy to solve
the problem by de-commissioning the access point, but the problem could have been
much more serious. Avoid problems like this one by performing a full spectrum analysis of
your site as part of the pre-implementation site survey.

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New Applications for RFID

         RFID technology continues to advance and new
         applications are evolving all the time. With the advent
         of successful on-metal RFID technology, industries that
         couldn’t use RFID in the past are now able to do so.

Real World Lessons: Survey Marker Company

A survey marker company was interested in using RFID tags to track its markers. The
company made survey markers out of industrial steel, with a copper endcap. These markers   Best Practice #8
were buried underground with a barcode reader on the end, and personnel had to dig
                                                                                           With experimentation, RFID
down to the end of the survey marker to scan the barcode. The barcode was subject to       solutions can be found for many
deterioration due to environmental exposure over time, so the company was interested in    applications that were impossible
using RFID tags. They hoped to protect the tags from exposure by placing them inside the   in the past.
survey marker, and to be able to read the survey marker without having to dig it up.

The company worked with Omni-ID to test performance of their tags in the survey marker.
Since the tags perform well on metal, the industrial steel pipe did not cause a problem.
Yet inside the pipe with the copper endcap, the tag could not be read. The company
suggested putting an aperture in the endcap, and sent samples to Omni-ID for testing.
Even with the aperture, the signal was still not strong enough. The Omni-ID engineer
suggested using plastic endcaps instead of metal. Testing showed that the tags performed
well inside the pipe with a plastic endcap. This series of experimentation resulted in a
successful solution for the survey marker company’s problem. The company is now in the
process of application testing.

      Summary

     The real-world examples shared here are designed to help
     you understand and make decisions about some of the
     design factors that will affect your own RFID implementation.
     As our summary, we’ve included a quick checklist of the
     factors involved.

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RFID Deployment Checklist

     1. Choose active or passive tags

     2. Select the tags based on

         •   Read range

         •   Tag size

         •   Eliminating interference

     3. Plan for attaching tags to assets

     4. Plan for commissioning tags

     5. Create an application test plan

Brought to you by Omni-Id
This collection of real-world implementation stories is brought to you by the executives and
engineers of Omni-ID, one of the world’s leading suppliers of passive UHF RFID tags. Omni-
ID’s technology is based on research from QuinetiQ, an international defense and security
technology company known for a number of breakthrough technology discoveries. Although
Omni-ID was founded in 2007, the research behind its technology started in the 1990s, and
its executive and engineering team has many years of combined experience in the RFID
industry – some of which they have shared with you in this paper.

Omni-ID was the first company to offer a product family of RFID tags that perform equally
well on metal, non-metal, and liquid assets. The Omni-ID Prox, Flex, and Max tags provide a
range of tag sizes with outstanding read-performance-to-size ratios. The OmniTether, Service
Bureau, and On Demand provide additional options and services that were developed as a
direct result of customer requirements and are available to make your implementation easier.
As some of these stories have illustrated, Omni-ID works closely with customers to ensure a
successful implementation and to solve new challenges and develop new applications.

We hope you’ve found value in our Real World Lessons. When you’re ready to begin your
implementation, contact us at Omni-ID.

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